Moomin and the Conceptual Chase: What Moomin in Japan Tells Us about Globalization


DATE
Wednesday January 27, 2016
TIME
12:30 PM - 12:30 PM

By: Professor Hyung-Gu Lynn

Moomin has been popular in Japan since 1969 when an animated series based on Tove Janssen’s books hit the airwaves. This talk will present a project in its early stages using the history and the popularity of Moomin in Japan to question notions of soft power, globalization, glocalization, and contraflow.